What you're looking for is probably this: On July 30, 2009, Zhang Lin broke the world record and won the first gold medal for China's men's swimming team in the World Championships. Publication time: 08:10:21 on July 30, 2009, by Xinhua News Agency. On July 29, in the men's 800-meter freestyle final at the World Swimming Championships held in Rome, Italy, Chinese swimmer Zhang Lin won the gold medal with a time of 7 minutes and 32.12 seconds.